Our Hotel and Refugee

Our bungalows and rooms have private porches and bathrooms, with a breathtaking view of the ocean. Family style meals are served in our open air restaurant were you can enjoy watching the sunset.

Punta Rio Claro Wildlife Refuge is surrounded by a primary tropical rain forest and we have private trails which can be use by our guests to walk alone our with one of our naturalist guides. Due to our legal enviromental protection status and the fact that our Refuge works as a natural path from other protected areas of the osa peninsula is the perfect place to have a close experience with nature. Even form the comodity of your cabin deck you will be able to see dozens of diferent birds species, wich some of them only can be seen in this area. The variety of trees, plants species give a special place for diferent animals souch as mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds to have a special feeding place that become their home. This means that not even moving form your cabin you will have a wonderful and unique experience.

In the whale migration season wich goes from december through march for the humpback whales from the north (Mexico, California) and from July though october from the south (from Peru), you will be able to either take a whale and dolphin watching tour or just as easy to watch them from the restaurant or from the commodity of your cabin.

About Corcovado Natonal Park

Located on the Osa Peninsula in the South West of Costa Rica (9° North, 83° West), which is part of the Osa Conservation Area. It was established on 24 October 1975, and encompasses an area of 425 km² (263 mi²). It is widely considered the crown jewel in the extensive system of national parks and biological reserves spread across the country. The ecological variety is quite stunning. National Geographic has called it "the most biologically intense place on Earth".

The park conserves the largest primary forest on the American Pacific coastline and one of the few remaining sizeable areas of lowland tropical rainforests in the world. Corcovado is home to a sizable population of the endangered Baird's Tapir. The park's rivers and lagoons are home to large populations of both the American crocodile and Spectacled Caiman, along with Bull sharks. Corcovado is also one of the final strongholds of the Jaguar within Central America and several other felines are also present, including Ocelot, Margay, Jaguarundi, and Puma. Several primates are also very common within the park, including the endangered Central American Squirrel Monkey, White-faced Capuchin, Mantled Howler, and Geoffroy's Spider Monkey. Other mammals present include Two-toed and Three-toed Sloth, Northern Tamandua and Silky Anteater. Poison dart frogs and several species of snake (including the venomous Fer-de-Lance and Bushmaster) are also common within the park.
The abundance in wildlife can in part be explained by the variety of vegetation types, at least 13, including montane forest (more than half the park), cloud forest, jolillo forest (palm swamp), prairie forest, alluvial plains forest, swamp forest, freshwater herbaceous swamp and mangrove, together holding over 500 tree species, including purple heart, poponjoche, nargusta, banak, cow tree, espave and crabwood. Another reason for the diversity (as with all of Costa Rica) is that it lies on a north-south corridor for flora and fauna; part of the "land bridge" and wildlife corridor that links the large continents of North America and South America.

About Caño Island Biological Reserve

Caño Island Biological Reserve is located offshore approximately 17 km  west from the coast of Punta Rio Claro National Wildlife Refuge.
Evidence of this island’s history is the incredible stone spheres that have been found here, all of which are hand carved and perfectly rounded. On the island itself, not much wildlife or fauna is found. However, is often used as a migratory passage of birds who fly to warmer climes from the northern hemisphere during the winter. Aside from the evergreen forest found on the island, the only other trees growing out here include the rubber tree, the wild cocoa tree and some shrubs and bushes. Besides birds like the osprey, black hawk, cattle egret and phalarope, some common animals and reptiles on the island are; pacas, boa constrictors, possums, tree frogs, pigs, moths, beetles, bats, mosquitoes, rats and lizards.
The oceanic sector of the reserve protects 5,800 ha. of marine habitat surrounding the island. A mask, snorkel, and fins are all you need to appreciate the abundance and variety of aquatic life just below the surface.

This island’s virgin waters are some of the bluest in the country, and are home to a spectacular variety of stunning marine flora and fauna as well as some gorgeous coral reefs. Rated as being the best underwater adventure diving spots in the world, the Isla del Cano Biological Reserve is also home to a huge variety of fish, whales and sharks.